Living by the pen : early British women writers
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Living by the pen : early British women writers
（The Athene series）
Teachers College Press, c1992
- : alk. paper
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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"Living by the pen" reclaims the literary heritage of early British women writers from the predominantly male tradition. Written by researchers and writers in the area, this work aims to provide accessible and useful background material on the women, the writing, and the period. The book is divided into three sections: the women; the issues, including violence against women in these early texts and the women's authority as writers; and the creative and professional achievements of these women.
Table of Contents
- A vindication of the writing woman, Dale Spender. Part 1 The women: Aphra Behn's Oronooko - the politics of gender, race, and class, Heidi Hutner
- preparatives to love - fiction as seduction in the works of Eliza Haywood, Ros Ballaster
- Sarah Fielding's self-destructing utopia - the adventures of David Simple, Carolyn Woodward
- Elizabeth Inchbald - not such a simple story, Kathariine M. Rogers
- Charlotte Smith's feminism - a study of Emmeline and Desmond, Pat Elliott
- Charlotte Lennox's the female quixote - a novel interrogation, Helen Thomson
- Fanny Burney - the tactics of subversion, Judy Simons
- daddy's girl as motherless child
- Maria Edgeworth and maternal romance
- an essay in reassessment, Mitzi Myers
- Joanna Naillie and Mary Brunton - women of the manse, Mary McKerrow. Part 2 The issues: "the witchery of fiction" - Charlotte Smith, novelist, Mary Anne Schofield
- romancing the novel - gender and genre in the early theories of narrative, Ros Ballaster
- "of use to her daughter" - maternal authority and early women novelists, Jane Spencer
- violence against women in the novels of early British woman writers, Katherine Anne Ackley. Part 3 The achievements: the triumph of the form, Rosalind Miles
- afterword - the wages of writing, Dale Spender.
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